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Republicans controlling Congress are proposing $10 billion in supplemental war funding and $4 billion more for disaster relief for Louisiana and other states as they unveil must-pass legislation to keep the government running into next spring

Two months after learning about rampant sexual harassment, bullying and other misconduct at the National Park Service, a House oversight panel heard testimony about similar problems at the Forest Service

At least 30 members of Congress will come together to read aloud a much-discussed letter from a woman to the former Stanford University student who was convicted of sexually assaulting her. Rep. Jackie Speier , D-California, will lead the reading of the more than 7,000-word letter on the floor of

Three of the NFL's top health and safety officers confronted the National Institutes of Health last June after the NIH selected a Boston University researcher to lead a major study on football and brain disease, Outside the Lines has learned. The new information contradicts denials by the NFL and a

Dr. Bennet Omalu, the real-life subject of Hollywood film "Concussion," brought his fight to Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon, urging industry Goliaths, including the NFL , to protect its players. "I've never been anti-NFL or anti-soccer or anti-football," Omalu said. "I'm rather about empowerment of

CYNTHIA HOGAN, THE NFL's top lobbyist, stuck to her game plan, even as a high-level aide to a U.S. congressman grilled her. They sat facing each other in the congressman's Capitol Hill office, Hogan flanked by two contract lobbyists from blue-chip firms, the staffer by a colleague of his own. They

President Obama expressed frustration that Thursday’s shooting in Oregon would likely not spur Congress to pass legislation geared at reducing gun violence. “This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families

Rep. Adam Schiff, an eight-term Democrat from California, has decided not to run for the open U.S. Senate seat in the Golden State in 2016, he told ABC News in an interview today. “I have decided not to run next year,” said Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on

By MICHAEL FALCONE NOTABLES THE CLOCK IS TICKING but so far there doesn’t seem to be a clear plan to send President Obama a bill before a lapse in funding occurs at the Department of Homeland Security, ABC’s JOHN PARKINSON and ARLETTE SAENZ report. Senate...